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Simple geography (see map) explained it. During the early '60s, when Russia may hold a temporary lead in numbers of intercontinental missiles, NATO's IRBMs based in England and Italy, later perhaps in Turkey, will cover enough targets in Russia to bridge the gap between less effective SAC bombers and rising numbers of U.S.-based ICBMs. Perhaps even more important, possession of missiles by NATO nations (for the time being the U.S. controls the atomic warheads) gives them a sense of participation in their own defense in the missile...
...Westinghouse researchers developed a new chemical compound that performed thermoelectrically at temperatures between 850° F. and 1,500° F., achieved an estimated 10% efficiency. Compared to the 40% efficiency of the biggest electric generators now in operation, this is not sensational. But future development may close the gap, make possible efficient direct generation of electricity from a coal fire, nuclear reactor or other heat source...
Bohn, a sophomore, led the Varsity to an overtime win against Hofstra, and has filled the gap left when Dub Mallonnee graduated. Unlike many collegiate attackmen, Bohn does not take a pass and immediately attempt to stuff the ball into the nets, but rather waits for the opposing goalie to make the first move...
...secret about the awesome difficulties of U.S. intelligence-gathering inside the Soviet Union. Most worrisome dim spot in U.S. intelligence: estimates of Soviet missile production and deployment are based not on knowledge of actual output but on estimates of missile-making "capability." Some subcommittee members found the present intelligence gap even more distressing than the future missile gap of the early 1960s (TIME, Feb. 9), hinted that they would be willing to vote more money for CIA if the Administration asked...
...approaching on the left, and if she had held her course, she would have passed to the left, as required by rules of the road at sea. Doria's radar should have shown Stockholm to her left also; instead, it showed her to the right. When the gap between the two ships was closing too fast for comfort, each watch officer tried to widen the gap, but since they saw each other on different sides, their best efforts had the worst effect. Stockholm's bow smashed through Doria's side...